sustainability

The Ultimate Office Snack Box Guide

By The FruitGuys on May 17, 2024

Whether you’re already a FruitGuys customer or just scoping out our selection of office snacks, you might have wondered how we choose the bars, bites, jerkies, and more that end up in our snack …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: healthy office, healthy snacks, return to office, sustainability

My New Favorite Kumquat Mocktail Recipe

By Erin Mittelstaedt on May 1, 2024

Last week, FruitGuys staff had the pleasure of participating in nearly a dozen different Earth Day events across the country. We brought a dancing banana man to an office lobby, ran a local honey …

Filed Under: Chief Banana Tagged With: citrus, healthy office, sustainability

Snack Stories: Meet the Founders Behind 2 AAPI-Owned Snacks

By Lex Flamm on April 26, 2024

The FruitGuys is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI Month) by featuring two AAPI-owned snacks as our Snacks of the Month. Learn more about Pan’s Mushroom Jerky and …

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Office Composting 101: How to Start Composting at Work

By The FruitGuys on April 12, 2024

If you’re worried about the food waste piling up in trash cans at your office, composting at work might be the perfect solution. Composting is an incredible process that turns undesirable organic …

Filed Under: WorkLife Tagged With: healthy office, sustainability, workplace wellness

3 Sustainable Snacks to Eat at Work for Earth Month

By Lex Flamm on March 29, 2024

What if the snacks you ate at work didn’t just taste good, but helped fight climate change, too? Three of The FruitGuys’ snack partners—The Gluten Free Brothers, Climate Candy, and BjornQorn—are …

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What to Do With Leftover Fruit at Work

By Lex Flamm on March 15, 2024

It’s Friday afternoon, and you’re passing the office break room on your way out for the weekend. You pop in to grab a snack for the road and notice something strange: The fruit bowl still has fruit in …

Filed Under: Fruit Tips Tagged With: fresh fruit, healthy office, sustainability

Is It Safe to Put Citrus in Compost? A Guide for Office Workers

By Lex Flamm on February 16, 2024

If you compost at your office, you probably know the basics: Eggshells, apple cores, and veggie peels are safe to add to your compost bucket, but raw meat and produce stickers should be trashed. Easy, …

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How to Dry Orange Slices: A Step-by-Step Holiday Guide

By Lex Flamm on November 24, 2023

It’s citrus season! As we write this, thousands of navel oranges, mandarins, and lemons are ripening to their brightest and most beautiful colors, begging to be picked. One of our favorite ways to …

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: citrus, sustainability

Here’s to the 2023 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 23, 2023

Each spring, The FruitGuys Community Fund provides annual grant awards for sustainability projects to small, American farms and agricultural nonprofits. An independent review committee made up of a …

Filed Under: Impact Tagged With: fruitguys community fund, small farms, support small farms, sustainability

Fruit in Words and Deeds

By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 18, 2023

The struggle and beauty of fruit, its cultivation and care, is a dance of regenerative-impermanence. As we approach Earth Day, I find myself fascinated with the idea that the earth itself gives us …

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Women Growing Change: The Class of 2022 FruitGuys Community Fund Grantees

By Pia Hinckle on May 5, 2022

A diverse group of women farmers dominate the 2022 class of grantees for The FruitGuys Community Fund, the nonprofit’s 10th year of providing grants to small farms and agricultural nonprofits that …

Filed Under: Impact Tagged With: California, Chicago, fruitguys community fund, New York, small farms, small grants, sustainability

4 Ways to Reduce Office Food Waste

By Jonanna Widner on March 28, 2019

Narrator: She didn’t eat it later. How many times have you opened up your refrigerator at work to face a wall of half-full Tupperwarecontainers and week-old to-go boxes of food that will eventually …

Filed Under: WorkLife Tagged With: healthy office, sustainability, workplace wellness

Fruitful Visits

By Shannan Slevin on July 27, 2016

Frecon Farms, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is as rich in history and community as it is in apples and stone fruits. Founded in 1944 by Richard S. Frecon and his wife, Martha, the orchard started as …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: apple, family farm, stone fruit, sustainability

Live from the Hedgerow

By Shannan Slevin on June 29, 2016

Embracing the dry June heat of San Joaquin County is a small price to pay when exploring the grounds of Lagier Ranches. This 120-acre family-run farm in Escalon, CA, is rich in trees and small fruits: …

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Got Bees at Work?

By Julie Collins on May 24, 2016

In 2015, the side lot next to The FruitGuys headquarters in South San Francisco was a gravelly, unused, weed-infested strip of land. Today it’s abuzz with activity, transformed into a cozy home for a …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: pollinators, sustainability

From Seed to Need

By Sheila Cassani on April 23, 2015

The FruitGuys Community Fund, a nonprofit fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, will award small American farms and agricultural nonprofits a total of $35,643 in 2015 for sustainability …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Impact Tagged With: farm, farm grants, fruitguys community fund, GoodWorks, sustainability, sustainable farming

A Fruitful Year of Giving

By Sheila Cassani on January 28, 2015

Since the company’s inception, giving back has been part of The FruitGuys mission. In 1998, we started donating fresh produce to local charities to provide healthy food to those who might not …

Filed Under: Impact Tagged With: GoodWorks, sustainability

2013 GoodWorks

By Miriam Wolf on January 27, 2014

Each year, The FruitGuys GoodWorks program supports people, projects, and good health from the field to the table, and 2013 was a record year for giving. In keeping with the long-held tradition of …

Filed Under: Impact Tagged With: donate-a-crate, fruitguys community fund, giving back, support small farms, sustainability

Farmers on Food Safety

By FruitGuys Staff on April 10, 2013

By Judith Redmond of Full Belly Farm, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop When I first heard the term “food safety” I knew that even the term itself was a problem, representing an approach to …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Profiles Tagged With: family farm, food safety, organic farming, sustainability

Subsidizing Big Ag

By Charlene Oldham on October 11, 2012

Small Farms Left Out of Farm Bill By Charlene Oldham When the first “farm bill” was created in the late 1930s to help family farms, horses and hand plows were as common on farms as Model …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: Agriculture, family farm, farm, farmers, health, organic farming, sustainability